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Wild they said racism was fake and we are all playing the victim card (slrpnk.net)

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My high school from a red state was like 99% white and also 99% conservative and had this attitude of racism is bad but also racism doesn't exist anymore then proceeds to make racist jokes and support racist politics (including students who were very academically focused), although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur. There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur

The fundamental difference between the Conservative Citizens Councils and the Klu Klux Klan was the veneer of political correctness the former utilized to make the violence they doled out via the police appear legitimate.

There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.

Lots of code words and turns of phrase, intended to alienate certain kinds of people and entitle others. Dog whistles are very popular in conservative communities.

We recently had a high school marching band get selected to perform at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. After the students raised $15k to pay for the trip, the Superintendent shut it down on the grounds that "New Orleans isn't a safe place for teenagers". Why was our city safe but the majority African American city dangerous? Who can say?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

The main problem at my high school was that people, both students and faculty, were constantly parroting shit they heard from Fox News (which is constantly promoting stuff under a racist agenda) and weren't in an environment that made them think about how their actions impact other people (which means the education system obviously failed at its job), so they would believe stuff like actual racism doesn't exist anymore and black people are oppressing white people and speech doesn't hurt anybody, and the extreme lack of diversity didn't help either. However, if you were to have a serious conversation with them most of them would say that racism is bad, so I think that if people actually had an understanding of the world beyond Fox News propaganda a lot of the edgy racist stuff would die off. With queerphobia there was the opposite problem, where people would bring up queer stuff in jokes to look edgy but in a serious context they would say that queerness is morally wrong.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I want to go in New Orleans someday to see the hometown of Suicideboys and get to know the people there...

It looks so interesting culturally and socially

[–] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

Ku Klu Klan.

Alliteration is fun but in this case it lessen the quality of your comment.